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Three weeks after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the tomb of the founder of the National Front was vandalized on the night of 30 to 31 January 2025, in the small commune of Trinidad-sur-Mer, Brittany. To protect the grave, the cemetery was closed to the public.
The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen on 7 January 2025 in Garches, at the age of 96, did not only bereave. While his relatives were able to mourn his death, some were pleased that such a controversial figure as the National Front founder, known for sulfurous talk, including Holocaust denial, and accused of having participated in acts of torture during the Algerian war, died. The end of an era that some celebrated the same evening of the announcement of the death of the politician, organizing a reunion on the Place de la République, in Paris, to uncover champagne. This is enough to arouse the anger of part of the political class.
A death as divisive as his life. On the night of Thursday to Friday 31 January, less than three weeks after its burial in the family vault of Trinidad-sur-Mer, in the Morbihan, Jean-Marie Le Pen's grave was vandalized. The suspects reportedly used a mass to destroy Marine Le Pen's father's burial. An act of violence attacking the dignity of the dead that triggered a wave of comments from the political body, beginning with the unremitting condemnation of its actions by his own daughter, Marie-Caroline, who tweeted: “No word to describe the individuals who are attacking the most sacred. Those who attack the dead are capable of the worst against the living. ”
There is no word to describe individuals who attack the most sacred. Those who attack the dead are capable of the worst against the living. pic.twitter.com/KjmDrsxOzc
